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    Awhina Mai Tatou Katoa Trust: Creative practice as community engagement in Auckland Central
    (2022-12) Woodruffe, Paul; Unitec, Te Pūkenga; Te Pukenga
    "Lifewise, Unitec Institute of Technology, Waitemata Local Board" Piki Toi Artweek 2019 Te Whare Ngaruru Whakatū Structure for Karangahape Road project Hui te Rangi Ora (The Shed)
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    Animating absence : future disasters in art and architecture
    (2019-12-04) Bardebes, William; Smith, Emma; Unitec Institute of Technology
    From the lambency of early civilisation the representation of the ruin has existed as an index of greatness lost. This representation manifest since Babylonian times has existed to open a fantastic world of wakeful dreaming in which the visuality of structure exists outside of time to the viewer. This manifestation of other-world-existed places the recipient within a manifold of fascination, aggrandizement, and enchantment constructing a world where the imagination enters a space of spectacular architectural fancy. This development, encapsulated as architectural capriccio offers a lens of transition from the fanciful to allegories of the sub-optimal. This is exemplified through a construct that traces a visual lineage from Marco Ricci to Gustav Dore. It is within this vector that Smith and Bardebes have explored architectural structure as metaphor - exploring the relationships between structure, ruin, and land within time-based visual arts practices. Employing the tools and processes of previsualization, explorations in the architecture of disaster are located and recounted across the landscapes of industrial Auckland, critically informed by the writings of Paul Virilio, Francois Cusset, Joshua Comaroff and Ker-Shing Ong. The work presented will discuss the current facet of an ongoing dialectic between the corporate and individual existence, while simultaneously agitating for a visual response to an architecture of peril and isolation.
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    Public art and urban mental health
    (2019-01-18) Tan, Leon; Unitec Institute of Technology
    Global context Urbanization and its discontents Urbanicity and the mind Urbanization and mental disorder Urban mental health From the clinic to the public realm Thinking at scale Artists as clinicians Jasmeen Patheja / Blank noise Talk to me Banksy Balfour Tea Party Sarah Smuts-Kennedy For the love of bees Urbanization & sustainability Undoing capitalist realism
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    The Piki Project : building capabilities within the homeless community
    (2019-04-16) Woodruffe, Paul; Unitec Institute of Technology
    How can the application of design thinking and technology empower a creative community that has lived experience of homelessness to become economically self-determining? The Piki project is a partnership with Lifewise Trust, and is focused on building capabilities within the homeless community. The project uses primarily creative practice to engage in capability building in technology, entrepreneurship, and to facilitate educational opportunities based within chosen activities. The methodology of this research project is sourced from Matauranga Māori, and informed by a core group of individuals from the community involved with the research partners in all decision making processes. The project is testing, measuring, and pushing the boundaries of existing practices so they can be adapted and expanded and be used to empower and build individual capability. One of the key components is the development of a brand that enables and supports the collective’s social structure, and facilitates storytelling, this branding also providing a providence and authenticity for the community artists and their customers. Two parallel systems of engagement are used; Piki Toi for creative practice, and Piki for other avenues such as gardening and trade related activities. The project is supported by the design and functionality of a visual arts website, and an app. The app was designed through Datacom’s “Datacomp” hackathon with guidance from representatives from the homeless community involved with the Piki project. The app enables those who do not have a creative practice, to achieve credits and recognition for skills learned while engaged in work or learning opportunities. Key findings the project is seeking to produce are new ways to provide teaching and learning opportunities (and resources to support these), to a community that for a variety of complex reasons, are unable to engage with mainstream higher education.
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    How is the ethnic identity of female Māori and Pacific artists constructed? : a study of life stories using vertical layers of discourse
    (2018-08) Matelau, Tui; Unitec Institute of Technology
    Participants: 6 female artists of Māori and/or Pacific descent • Video ethnography: Audio-visual technology used to record participants engaging in their creative practice • Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (MIA): Transcription and analysis of video data. • Interviews: semi structured life story interview